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There could be something there, if they tread new ground. Instead of Austin’s semi-misogynistic 60s free-love attitude being out of step with modern 90s sensibilities, you could have the over the top action tropes of the 90s come into conflict with gritty, realistic action sequences that have become popular in modern spy thrillers. Pair him up with a Daniel Craig/Jason Borne style spy; one of them is throat punching assassins in desperate, close combat fight scenes while the other is running casually through gunfire, judo-chopping goons. Might be fun.
You can’t do a new Austin powers without Verne Troyer. Mini me is too iconic, let’s remember his legacy
Would it be a money grab? Probably.
Were the other movies good? Not really.
Do I actively love them? Yes.
Would I watch this? 100%.
I miss this kind of movie with really stupid humor that knows it’s really stupid. They don’t seem to make many of them anymore… probably because they think they won’t sell.
Haven’t watched but at least trailers for “The Naked Gun” seem pretty promising.
I’m not watching an ad or a Twitter post to get a read on this but does anyone actually want this? I watched the first one many times because I was 12 and then grew out of it by the sequel. A lot of this late 90s/early 00s comedy seems cringe at best and problematic at worst and now needs to compete with infinite sophomoric YouTube videos.
Not to mention, the Bond franchise got way serious in response to Austin Powers, and the 60s spy he was parodying doesn’t seem nearly as culturally relevant to the kids this would need to appeal to to be successful.
… Or is this pure cash grab?
It’s only cringe/sophomoric because it’s highlighting those aspects of the early bond films. They were wrapped in a serious and glitzy bow, but Austin Powers just sheds that, it doesn’t add anything newly problematic.
Yes cant wait!
All three were fun comedies. An updated take will be fun too!
We have capitalism. Everything is a cash grab. At least this is a fun one. Fun.
Tbh I’m glad I saw yours and the other replies saying how much you like these movies. They’re some of my childhood favorites, and we even saw the third one in theaters when it came out because my brother and I loved them.
I still love them.
It was about a man from the 60s struggling with the societal changes of the (at that time) modern times.
You don’t think there’s new stuff to struggle with from the last 20 years?
I think there’s actually a really interesting opportunity here. The late 60s/early 70s bond that Austin Powers was parodying would mean that a new one would be parodying late 90s/early 2000s movies and culture. Plus Austin Powers has been portrayed as “woke”, he refuses to sleep with women who can’t consent, is sexually open, and advocated for women in power. It’d be a very fine line to do well but I could definitely see a modernized Austin Powers hitting millennial nostalgia while also staying true to the character and being entertaining
revived…
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“surely this time we finally smashed those capitilists pigs, ah comrades?”
I like the movies and would watch this one
Can we let things be?
No.
Even after death, your lifeless corpse will be reanimated (with your heirs’ consent) to continue wringing money out of your humanity.
Forever.
Did he say: “There’ll be an Austin Powers 4. Oh yes, there will be an Austin Powers 4?”
I had always wondered if we’d get one, the end of Goldmember pretty strongly implies there would be another with Scotty as the bad guy. Maybe it’ll be a riff on Thunderball.
Does there have to be?
Now that he has Shrek 5 money he can afford another box office flop.
another box office flop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Powers#Box_office_performance
Budge for the whole series: $112 million
Worldwide revenue for the whole series: $676 million
Please don’t do fat bastard again.
He lost a lot of weight at the end of Goldmember but Mike Meyers said in the commentary that Fat Bastard would be back.
IIRC Fat Bastard lost all that weight by eating Subway…Goldmember was in 2002. There were also a couple jokes about Fat Bastard eating babies…then 2007 is the beginning of when Jared absolutely wrecked Subway marketing with his predator stuff all the way to 2015. I can’t imagine they’d leave an opportunity to fit something about that into at least one joke.
Wonder if plans on playing and aging spy who getting to old for the game or something.
Shagdalic baby
There are 3? I would’ve sworn there were two, and I really only remember the first one.
It has a lot of physical comedy gags most of which you’ve forgotten that fill upthe time.
Autism Powers 4
FEMBOTS!
